Of course, Keith Ellison isn’t the root cause of his own political
timidity. It is the larger Democratic Party of which he is a part and to
which he must appeal as a DNC chair candidate. Most party officials who
will be voting for chair are part of an entrenched party machine. Their
careers depend on serving the Democratic establishment and its allies,
including wealthy donors. And that requires opposing anyone who would
seriously push substantial party reforms.
Thus, regardless of who wins the race for DNC chair, the Democratic
Party’s deep interests will continue to clash with progressives’ basic
goals. As a result, a strong case can be made that left-leaning people
must break from the Democratic Party if they want to achieve their aims.
Even those who still hope to sway the party could be better off doing it
from the outside, where they might pose enough of a partisan threat to
exert some real leverage.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/progressives-need-a-new-party-not-a-new-dnc-chair_us_58af05bde4b01f4ab51c775d